"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."
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I wish I could be so brave as a climate skeptic. You are all my heros! Save me from science climate information that is so…sci fi, along with misread temperature gauges!
Apollo took us to the moon! Hubble took us to the edge of the Universe! Science can give 3 telescopes the resolution of the distance between the 3 telescopes! Science gave people 3 extra decades to live…at least the ones that can afford health care!
Hey, science is the sci fi of yesterday.
Another good one, and a favourite of mine from CS Lewis:
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
/just thought I’d share. LS, you’re a flake.